Troops Ordered To Hopkinsville As Citizens Form Guard
Rumors of night riders mobilizing in Gracey prompt immediate action in Hopkinsville Kentucky. Sheriff David Smith calls a mass meeting. 200 citizens sworn in as a guard with Major E F Bassett coordinating from Earlington. Governor Wilson orders Earlington company to Hopkinsville. Col. Jouett Henry leads patrols and guards set on turnpike approaches.
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Hopkinsville
Gracey
David Smith
Court House
FE. B. Bassett
Augustus E. Willson
Frankfort
Earlington Company
Christmas Bazaar At First Methodist Church
The Home Eiasion Society of the First Methodist church will hold a bazaar all day Saturday in the Sunday school rooms. Sales include useful articles cakes and candies hot chocolate coffee and sandwiches served. A note from a state agricultural report is included about a poison remedy and its cautions.
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Eiasion Society
First Methodist Church
Dé&Wit
State Board to Tax Bars With Unlicensed Whiskies
Nashville news item reports the State Board of Equalization upholding J R Jotton's tax push on whiskey dealers operating more than one bar without proper licenses. The decision endorses collecting back taxes and licenses, a significant statewide enforcement move after days of advisement and a county clerk ruling.
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State Board
Nashville
Tenn
State Board of Equalization
J. R. Jotton
Whitey
State Board of Equali Eation
Shelton
Special sale on trunks and bags at Ten Eleven
The Herald advertises a special sale featuring trunks and bags with time framed as 10 11. Shoppers are invited to visit the store for bargains on luggage and related items.
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T.'N. Figuers
T. N
Roosevelt ends third term bid amid mixed reactions
President Roosevelt declares he will not accept another nomination ending third term talk. Senators and representatives react with surprise, support or skepticism while Cannon notes the President speaks for himself. A special sale line appears at the end with odd figures.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Republican National Committee
Wade
Hopkins
Olivors
Richardson
Delaware
J. Adame Bede
Minnesota
Taft
Cannon
Uncle Jor
Buler
Pennsylvania
Joe Cannon
Railroads to repay back taxes after settlement in court
Nashville Terminals will pay the city 447 000 in back taxes including the 1807 assessment after conferences with city attorney Hill McAlister and railroad lawyers. The dispute centered on a 31 000 000 franchise and a chancery court compromise decree to be issued soon. Vouchers will be prepared and payment made this week.
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Nashville
Tesa
Hill McAlister
Louisville
Chancery Court
Union Station
Amd
Tve
Riots in Pickens County Proved False Says Local Paper
In Montgomery telegrams, the Gordo Messenger editor reports no riot in Pickens County. Ten or twenty negroes were arrested near Lowetown for resisting an officer, with one firing at the officer and killing a prisoner. the sheriff’s deputy Lowe was lightly wounded and calm returned. A Columbus correspondent supports this account and calls prior reports untrue.
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Montgomery
Ala
W. J. Peters
Gordo
Pickens County
Lowetown
Gor
Comstable R. V. Lowe
Advertiser
Columbus
Miss
E. B. Kirksley
Pickeny County
Peters
Adda
Expensive Penalties for Unpaid Ration Road Labor
Citizens avoiding ordered county road work face a $7.60 total penalty after fines, costs, and added charges. Weekly arrests occur for this offense as payment options are limited and enforcement remains active.
Dynamite Tragedy Near Bristol Claims Four Lives
A Bristol Kansas? Tenn. dispatch reports a farm near John Dull ten miles west of tere in which a dynamite stick exploded. Wille Dull age 5 died instantly and three others Mrs. Nathanie Barnes and Mrs Elijah Moody and her child perished. The house burned and all bodies were cremated.
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Cincinnati
Dee
Bristol
Tenn
Tere
John Dull
Wille
Aise
Na- Thanie
Barnes
Elijah Moody
Vardaman Ordered Military Escort for Lum Case
In Vicksburg Mississippi on December 11 a military escort accompanied Jim Lum a negro on orders from Gov Vardaman and Circuit Judge Bunh to Jackson to plead to the charge of killing Ben Galder Jr a prominent city youth on October 2 Lum has been held in Jackson since his arrest and will be returned to Vicksburg after the proceeding another escort is planned Friday for a preliminary trial
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Vicksburg
Miss
Bunh
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Hopkinsville, KY
Gov. Willson
W. J. Whithorne
The
Herald
Hom
Guy B. Tucker
State of
Arkansas
Figuers
the Herald
Columbia
THEM
John Wesley Gaines
Tennessee
America
K. Tillman
South Carolina
Terminal Company
City OF Nashville
T. N. Figuers
Vardaman
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